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by halestock 4y ago
[disputed] instead of refuted?
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by halestock 4y ago
> No regulator has had the idea of just going to Facebook, having a real conversation about what they're doing, then talked about it with ethics professionals and researchers and tried to draft a forward-looking law that will make t
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by halestock 4y ago
Alexa?
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by halestock 4y ago
I was a little suspicious of this claim but nope, it's absolutely true: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/satellite-ers-...
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by halestock 4y ago
> It lets other businesses such as software companies sell their future recurring revenue to large institutional investors for cash the borrowers can spend immediately. Add some crypto to the mix and that's a recipe for disaster.
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by halestock 4y ago
I used to work for a company that sold labels for various third party printer manufacturers, and let me tell you, some of them were VERY lazy when it came to assigning MAC addresses.
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by halestock 4y ago
I think the real lesson to be learned here is that it's extremely possible for a bunch of really smart people to completely miss the mark.
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by halestock 4y ago
My IANAL answer is that in that case you would not be negotiating in good faith, and both purchasing parties could sue for damages.
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by halestock 5y ago
Here's the openjdk page which includes links to details of all new features: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/18/
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by halestock 5y ago
It cites KOMO as the source - who is owned by Sinclair - so I can't say I'm surprised that it would be so sensationalistic.
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by halestock 5y ago
I can't help but wonder, with the increases in attrition across the industry, are we hitting some kind of tipping point where the institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing? Mistakes happen all the time
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by halestock 5y ago
Yeah, I think that's a fair criticism.
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by halestock 5y ago
This is an unfortunate situation for sure, but I think I still agree with how they responded. What if they had accepted your evidence? The page still has no publicly visible references, so I (the user) have to just take the editor's wo
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by halestock 5y ago
https://jwt.io/ is also a great resource for analyzing JWTs interactively (with the usual caveats about pasting sensitive information into a random text box).
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Ask HN: If you were in a software developers' union, what would you fight for?
7 points by halestock 5y ago|32 comments
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by halestock 5y ago
Are you implying that random people will just start selling rides ad hoc?
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by halestock 5y ago
I struggle with ADHD, and I know I work much more effectively from the office. I learned during the pandemic that I really need and missed the social interactions that occur in the office, both for my mental health and for my job (there&#x2
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by halestock 5y ago
Fungibility must be perfectly binary because it's an intrinsic property of the currency. And it's essential that it be treated as such because there are huge implications to whether or not a currency has that property. A million
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by halestock 5y ago
I don't disagree, but I think that's still orthogonal to the discussion and, considering NFTs are non-fungible by definition, it's moot anyway. But let's pretend we're talking about cryptocurrency, which does claim
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by halestock 5y ago
Haha well, no slapping necessary. I like to think I'm right but would love to be proven wrong. It's important to distinguish between fungibility and tracibility because fungibility is an extremely important property for a currency
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by halestock 5y ago
This is more of an issue of tracibility vs fungibility. The thing that's unique is the bill , not the dollars themselves. Take a stolen $20 bill, deposit it in your bank account with "clean" money. Now withdraw $20. Is it cl
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by halestock 5y ago
> The money itself will not lose its value because you've tainted it with sin--you'll just likely be caught if you spend too much of it at once. So how is this different from, say, using a tumbler? The crux of TFA's argume
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by halestock 5y ago
Ha, well, I'd argue that the generalized version of what I said applies as well. Forking a currency changes nothing about the properties of the original currency because we're no longer talking about the original currency. That is
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by halestock 5y ago
Fungibility has nothing to do with dollar bills and everything to do with dollars . You can't make a withdrawal from a bank after two years and ask for the same dollar bills back that you deposited.
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by halestock 5y ago
If I make a counterfeit Picasso and sell it to someone who doesn't know any better, that doesn't mean the original is now fungible, it just means I duped someone.
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by halestock 5y ago
The same could be said about the dollar. If I steal a large amount of money from a bank, or sell a bunch of drugs, I can't spend that money without laundering it first, but that has nothing to do with the fungibility of the dollar. The
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by halestock 5y ago
How much is pagerank involved in google searches these days? I wonder, if they were to revert to an early version of it, would searches improve? Or did they move away / update / augment it to prevent seo abuse?
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by halestock 5y ago
Never having been stopped for doing this and confirming with police that they do not stop people for this are separate things, and I'm willing to bet that in your case it's the former, not the latter.
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by halestock 5y ago
> If we churned these things out like iPhones, they'd be damn cheap. If an iphone had the potential to render a city/country/continent uninhabitable for decades, I'm willing to bet the FCC would have a bit more string
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by halestock 5y ago
Indeed! https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59063768

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